Over the last two years, the movement has brought national
attention upon the issue of minimum wage, with a special focus on how much fast - food chains pay workers.
Not exact matches
Could it be, for example, that a kairos for suffering and hope does not preclude theological
attention to other clarnant
issues, not only as they bear
upon this one, but also in their own right - sin as how we all stand accountable before God, death as our common mortality, error as our common lot - and what the Good News says about all these things, i.e., forgiveness, resurrection, revelation?
For better or worse, we find ourselves at a moment when considerable national
attention is being given to the morality of capital punishment, and readers of First Things in recent months have also been invited to reflect
upon the
issue in an essay by Avery Cardinal Dulles (April) and in a later exchange between Dulles and his critics (August / September).
But, excellent as this is for our present purpose, a further
issue forces itself
upon the
attention.
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With this petition we want to build
upon this support, and bring this
issue to the
attention of the people best placed to do something about it.
MacGregor's contemporaries have also drawn
attention to this
issue: Timandra Whitecastle — whose grimdark debut Touch of Iron aims to redefine «strong» female characters — recently expressed similar views about the frustrations caused by those who insist
upon such a divide.
Though the dog days of summer are fast
upon us, spirits in our local pet world are higher, with serious talk on the street of a dog park, an increased focus on the Tulsa animal shelter, and overall more
attention on local pet
issues.
Both James and Michael are insisting
upon more rational presentation of
issues and facts, but (especially today in our information - saturated world), appeals to values and emotion grab
attention and impel action far more effectively than rational, Platonic discussion.
Dawn: Released by the World Bank, the report calls
upon the government to make urban air quality improvement a priority in the country's policy agenda, noting that the
issue has received little
attention despite strong evidence indicating an urgent need to tackle pollution in major cities.
Having a special year to draw
attention to the importance of this
issue no doubt has a role to play, but much like how the end of the 2010 Year of Biodiversity saw a slew of reports detailing how little progress is actually being made to preserve the ecosystems we all depend on, somehow I can't help but feel like come December 2011 we'll all be reading about how we're still not doing enough to preserve the forests
upon which so much life depends.